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‘Back to the Future’ and Zemeckis Get MoMA Retrospective

By Dave Itzkoff July 30, 2015 5:00 pmJuly 30, 2015 5:00 pm

One way to take in all the films that Robert Zemeckis has directed is to hop in your time-traveling DeLorean and skip from year to year as movies like “Back to the Future,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and “Forrest Gump” are released in theaters. Your other option is to wait until the fall, when the Museum of Modern Art will honor this Academy Award-winning filmmaker with a career retrospective that includes his feature motion pictures, as well as television work and student films.

The museum said on Thursday that this retrospective, titled “What Lies Beneath: The Films of Robert Zemeckis,” will run from Sept. 29 through Oct. 18, and will open with a special screening of “The Walk,” his new 3-D film about Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. (“The Walk” is also the opening film at this year’s New York Film Festival.)

The program will also celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Back to the Future” with a special screening on Oct. 3 of all three movies from this science-fiction trilogy. (Ticket prices do not include hoverboards or history-altering sports almanacs.) Other films that will be shown in the retrospective include “Cast Away,” “Death Becomes Her,” “Flight” and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”

A version of this article appears in print on 07/31/2015, on page C2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Zemeckis Retrospective Planned at MoMA.